Summer window

Re Clarke, more concerned that Palace or West Ham come in for him now.

They will make actual non-joke bids.

 

And that's the key part - we aren't going to be over a barrell to PL clubs just because they come calling. As I just stated, if a club wants to pay £25m then absolutely let him go.
Burnley can **** off with their £10m bids

 

If Clarke is to be offered a new contract then I am sure his agent is trying every trick in the book to get his client the best deal and as we have seen before using another clubs interest is a tried and tested formula

 

If it gets to 15m I think that will be the trigger though. Let's see .

 

Yeah i know that im just putting that out there that Burnley arent a patch on us when it comes to club size. They can offer him Premiership football i also get that aswell, but he should be patient.
We are a club on the rise and were only 2 games away last season from also being in the Prem.
He should give us at least another year and if we dont go up again, wait for a club alot bigger than Burnley to come in for him. As it stands i think theyll be playing Championship football again next year anyway.

 

I hope you are right.

I am not being negative deliberately. Just commenting on how I see it. I think we all know the model is to sell on. A poster was saying earlier we have a fee in mind when we will do business. I am sure we have for all our players. Whether we can achieve it is another thing of course.

 

Bristol City digging in for £25million for Scott.

There’s your benchmark right there.

 

I hope the club factor in any sell-on clause too - so if Spuds get 25% of any fee, we make sure that's added on to whatever Burnley/Wet Sham etc pay

I have more confidence in the people running this club than I ever had. Previous regimes would have a) paid over the odds for Clarke and b) wet their knickers at the 1st bid and sold him. I like the way we do business these days

 

Because it's come from their chief cheerleader Downie

 

Does this effect the new contract that seemed to be in the pipeline???

 

Zaha has signed for Galatasaray now.

 

I don't necessarily think Downie is a Saudi-lover, he's an Edinburgh boy and is a massive Hearts fan.

I DO however, think he hates us - probably due to all the twitter abuse we've given him over the years

 

A sensible voice among all the noise and I totally agree with you, as the club through KS have stated we are not a selling club and do not need to sell as we are trying to build something but if players want to leave or it benefits the club then the recruitment/management team will assess each case on its merits. people need to stay calm (don't panic Mr. Manwairing) and trust the club as they have not made many big mistakes so far and have earned a bit of trust from the fan base.

 

Good signing for them that. Im suprised no other clubs i.e Burnley never came in for him.

 

Galatasaray have some kinda mad front 3 now.

Zaha-Icardi-Zaniolo

Decent that. God knows about the rest of the side like.

 

The use of the word "disgruntled" is a **** stirrer and nothing else mind - no evidence at all of that

 

appreciate the update mate

 

I don't think the model is to sell on it is to build sensibly and recruit the right people. It's not about profit it is about a sustainable model which needs to be built and working before bigger investment comes in. Think Everton and their heavy spending with poor results or Man Utd and their poor investments in the wrong players, but Man City with heavy investment but with a good business model is now a debt free club working on a sustainably. Weather you agree or not Man City are debt free and self financing whilst Man u are at this moment heavily in debt in a rundown stadium not able to buy players they need because the correct working model was not put in place at the right time.

 

To be honest all he's doing is repeat the previous tweet from macca, which itself is a report from Teamtalk. And funny how Teamtalk are saying he's disgruntled yet people who spoke to him in America only a couple of days ago said he'd said he was happy here.

My two cents. Burnley want him but won't pay what we value him at and are using "friendly media" to try and unsettle him, knowing that most of these "journos" like Downie and Nixon will scour the net for stuff to tweet out so will repeat it.

 

Palace were offering him 200k a week to stay, teams like Burnley wouldn't get close to paying that sort of money